How to Use expense in a Sentence

expense

1 of 2 noun

• I don't think a first-class ticket is worth the added expense.
• A new car is a major expense.
• The annual fee is simply an expense of doing business.
• Lisa still lives in the home with the children without a single expense.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
• Travel expenses add up quickly, and flights often are the brunt of the cost.
  — Stackcommerce Team, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2024
• A lot of the songs, Lizzo’s in particular, make so much more sense in the film than on their own, almost at the songs’ expense.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
• But for now, at least, Democrats are celebrating, in part at LaRose's expense.
  — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2023
• A couple of changes to your household expenses will make your life less stressful.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024
• Members work Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and are paid $25 a day, plus mileage expenses.
  — Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023
• Imagine the expense and mayhem caused by the need to repave thousands of miles of New York streets after a single weeklong heat wave.
  — Curbed, 28 July 2023
• Go about your business, work alone and avoid anything that requires you to share expenses.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• And this line of thinking shows how you and the second owner might get reimbursed for your expenses over time.
  — Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• Some have delayed retirement or gone back to work to stay afloat; others have tried to cut back on their expenses.
  — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
• And Gilead has long covered up to $7,200 in annual out-of-pocket expenses for PrEP.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
• The digital frontier is stacked with risks, with hackers eyeing a big score at your expense.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2023
• The first of two GoFundMe pages had been created in September to help him with health care expenses.
  — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2023
• Suddenly, the idea of charging people for a checkmark to cover the site’s expenses might not seem so brilliant.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
• Travel insurance can compensate you for some of these expenses and, at the very least, provide you with peace of mind.
  — Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2024
• Employees who might otherwise want to retire could feel the need to work full-time for longer in order to cover their expenses.
  — Maya Miller, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2024
• From there, get a clear, comprehensive grasp on your expenses.
  — Mia Taylor, Parents, 20 Jan. 2024
• Restaurants, too, have become more of an expense for Americans.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
• Levy has not asked, so no party in the case has commented on the fees and expenses requested in connection with the LAN settlement.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2024
• The judge just recently awarded Workman and her law partners more than $6 million in attorneys fees and legal expenses, on top of the award to their client.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
• His firm, with $3.8 million in expenses for the recent period, was the top-spending lobbying firm.
  — Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
• The money also is expected to speed up the creation of an electric bus fleet, which could recoup some of the expense in operating savings over time.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
• The union insists that labor expenses are only 4% to 5% of the cost of a vehicle, and that the companies are making billions in profits and can afford big raises.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2023
• While this is important, and can even be a protective factor toward our mental health, these values may come at the expense of our own well-being.
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2023
• There is no cost to students, parents and members of VOY for travel expenses, according to Accius.
  — Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 8 Mar. 2024
• The firm’s work, overseen by the Downtown Partnership at the Prebys Foundation’s expense, is meant to help the city fill in the blanks of its forthcoming solicitation.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2024
• The company paid nearly $40 million in interest expenses last year and racked up about $16 million in operating losses.
  — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024

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expense

2 of 2 verb

• The following month, Schroder expensed a $218 meal at the same restaurant.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019
• This new change allows for business owners to be able to expense business items all in one year that were incurred after the year 2017.
  — Karlton Dennis, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
• The right’s expensing, taxing equally in the U.S., and no longer taxing around the world, all incredibly pro-growth, big changes.
  — WSJ, 12 Feb. 2017
• Because of the near victory before extra innings, the Dodgers had expensed their best arms.
  — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2017
• Companies can make a lot of money at that price range and also keep their income up and expenses down.
  — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018
• If auto allowances are stopped, employees could instead expense mileage at the IRS standard of $.575 per mile, Lin wrote.
  — Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2020
• Marquis has increased the Cliburn’s expenses for school performances, which are free for local schools.
  — Andrea Ahles, star-telegram.com, 3 June 2017
• Those who live within two hours of the Boston headquarters can now fully expense the cost of traveling into the office once a month.
  — Sarah Shemkus, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Dec. 2021
• Noem made a similar announcement on Monday in Sioux Falls, which will be able to expense up to $41.5 million to federal funds the state has received.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2021
• Team staffers also receive per diem, although some opt to decline the benefit in order to expense lavish meals.
  — Jake Fischer, SI.com, 12 July 2018
• To narrow the growing gap between revenue and expenses the largest Catholic university in the U.S. is starting to cut its budget.
  — Nic Querolo, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
• Palantir fired two employees who expensed lingerie and suits, people familiar with the episode say.
  — Eliot Brown, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018
• When Leroy left the U.S. armed forces, expenses the military had helped pay for — housing, utilities, clothing, food — began to rack up.
  — Staff Writer, USA TODAY, 18 June 2019
• The House Minority Leader is not the only one to expense unusual travel costs.
  — cleveland, 6 Feb. 2020
• The sports-marketing staff were among the employees who sometimes attended strip clubs with athletes and expensed the visits to the company, the people said.
  — Khadeeja Safdar, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
• Companies have long been able to expense their R&D costs upfront, even if the product of that research ends up being a product or patent that could generate revenue for years.
  — Washington Post, 29 May 2019
• Visa’s spending on personnel rose 8% in the quarter because the company continued to expense hiring from late last year.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2020
• This move violates rules that state the prime minister’s residence cannot expense catered meals while also employing a chef.
  — Renae Reints, Fortune, 21 June 2018
• Some companies expense the credits at the time of purchase, while others capitalize and write them off later.
  — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 25 May 2022
• The business expenses Along with paying and training workers, coffee shop owners must keep the lights on — literally.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Now renovations are in the same category as home remodelings and must be expensed over 39 years.
  — Mark Escamilla, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
• One of the biggest differences between book and tax income is how companies expense their investments.
  — Rob Portman, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2022
• The company said in its annual report its capitalization of those costs is limited, and so some of them are expensed as they are incurred.
  — Michael Rapoport, WSJ, 8 July 2018
• Federal travel rules allow first- and business-class flights to be expensed to the EPA on long, international trips only.
  — Emily Atkin, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2018
• On an annualized basis, expenses during the fourth quarter were 30% lower than the same period a year before, Brown said.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2023
• That number assumes that most of the personal income-tax reductions expire in eight years, and a break for expensing capital equipment starts phasing out in 2023.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2018
• The company he co-founded, Salesforce.com Inc., helped boost sales by encouraging employees to buy and expense the book published last October.
  — Nico Grant, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• Honda decided against designing a plug-in because of the additional weight and expense the driveline brings.
  — cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
• The lawsuit cites many of the allegations that have emerged in other legal cases in recent months, including that LaPierre expensed hundreds of thousands of dollars in wardrobe purchases at a high-end clothier.
  — Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2019
• Regulations stipulating more clearly what could and could not be expensed by a surrogate had become law just weeks before this email exchange.
  — Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023

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